Staff Profile

Career Summary

Biography

Dr Lee has made a significant contribution towards architectural and design computing research over the past 10 years in three main areas: Design cognition, Augmented reality, and Design computing.

He has led many research programs within the school and at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Built Environment Research (CIBER). The results have been presented and published at conferences of CAADFutures, ASA(ANZAScA), DRS, CAADRIA and DCC; in the Architectural Science Review, the International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation and the International Journal of Architectural Computing.

Since 2003 Dr Lee as a full-time lecturer had extensive experience in digital architecture and has lectured in digital design. As an expert in the field of architectural and design computing, Dr Lee was invited to become a visiting academic at the University of Newcastle in February 2011. The current cognitive research, Design and Language, has a significant impact on breaking down the barriers to achieving efficient and sustainable interactions between people in design teams, particularly those in the Asia–Pacific region.

Dr Lee acts as a reviewer for international journals and conferences such as the Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics, Urban Studies, Journal of Information Technology in Construction, Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, ASA (ANZAScA), CAADRiA, ICT, and International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC). He was Associate editor for a special edition of Architectural Science Review on Design Computing and has also served as reviewer for grants of the National Research Foundation of Korea, the Israel Science Foundation and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.

Research

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Research expertise

Dr Lee has made a significant contribution towards architectural and design computing research in three main areas over the past 10 years

(1) Design cognition: Since joining the University of Newcastle, Dr Lee has been involved in various successful architecture and design computing research activities in the school. In particular, he conducted cognitive design experiments on the design process and products in parametric modelling environments. A framework combining protocol analysis and consensual assessment techniques was presented at the ANZAScA2011 Conference. His results were presented at the Design Research Society Conference (DRS 2012) and the Design Computing and Cognition conference (DCC’12). He has continued to contribute to the research field of design cognition, presenting papers in CAADRiA 2013, CAADFutures 2013, ANZAScA 2013 and publishing papers in the International Journal of Architectural Computing and International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation. He is currently leading a research project on multi-cultural design communication in architectural design and practice.

(2) Augmented reality for embodied environments: Dr Lee’s PhD project in housing and interior design was one of the earliest studies that aimed to merge physical and virtual design factors into an embodied environment. Dr Lee also conducted research on specifying a mixed reality-based design system at the Centre of Human Ecology, Kyunghee University, in 2010. He continues to contribute to this field through his research on the mobile augmented reality for embodied environments in terms of immersion and mobile creativity, and collaborating with international researchers.

(3) Architectural and design computing: Before coming to Australia, Dr Lee had published in the field of architectural and design computing, especially on architectural applications for pervasive computing and context awareness in the building environments. The majority of Dr Lee's publications are in the area of applying novel technologies. For example, since 2006, he has conducted innovative research projects, ‘RFID Applications in a Building Project’, ‘CAME (Context Aware Mobile Engine)’, ‘Context-Aware Inference Engine considering User Behaviour’, and ‘a Work Service Model of the Ubiquitous Office’. This research has been published in CAADRiA, CAADFutures, ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition, ISARC, GEST2009, and Computers in Industry, Advanced Engineering Informatics, the Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture as well as several refereed Korean journals.

In Australia, Dr Lee has studied the combination of space syntax and shape grammar approaches (as part of Professor Ostwald’s ARC DP). In addition, with the school’s internal support, he has set up wireless sensor networks to develop the Sensory Design Lab in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Built Environment Research.

Languages

English

Korean

Fields of Research

Collaboration

Dr Lee has collaborated with colleagues in the School as well as other active international researchers. Researchers at the Curtin University, University of Technology Sydney and the University of Queensland have been involved in his studies. In particular, he continues to collaborate with South Korean researchers.

Teaching

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Computer Aided Design

Research methodology

Teaching expertise

Since Dr. Lee became a full-time lecturer in South Korea in 2003, he has taught Digital Design, CAD Studio, Digital Presentation, etc. He also Instructed students on the practical application of various Architectural design and presentation environments. His expertise also allowed him to teach 'parametric design' to professionals at major architectural firms.

After joining the School, Dr. Lee has tutored 'Research in the built environment (ARBE4121)' and 'Communication in the Built Environment 4 (ARBE2202)'.

Lee J, Song J-H, Oh K-S, 'A Study on Developing a Context-Aware Scenario for the RFID Application of the Information Management on the Construction Materials', Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea, 25 111-118 (2009) [C1]

Chae HH, Kim MJ, Lee J, Wang X, 'A work service model of the ubiquitous office', Circuit Bending, Breaking and Mending. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), Newcastle, NSW (2011) [E1]

2011

Lee J, Kim MJ, 'A context immersion of mixed reality at a new stage', Circuit Bending, Breaking and Mending. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), Newcastle, NSW (2011) [E1]